Apparently Lord Sugar's brief was to get YouView to market and shoehorn it into people's homes through his big, bad personality. Now that job's seemingly done, as Sugar's checking out to "focus my time and attention into my other businesses" like, err, The Apprentice. Time well spent, obviously. Read More >>
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"Really? Watch the episodes from the early series of the apprentice and you'll see it front & centre whenever the receptionist would tell the losin..." More »
BT's currently trialling a complete revamp of its Vision TV service, moulding it into the next evolution of television, IPTV. While the likes of you or I won't get our hands on it for a while, an anonymous tipster was kind enough to clue us in on what it's like. Will IPTV really revolutionise TV in the UK? Read More >>
Here's something that you might have thought was obvious, but wasn't actually included in the first run. YouView's killer unified search now processes the live TV EPG up to 7 days in advance, as well as all the on-demand catch up stuff. Neat. YouView's about the only tele-box service that actually gets meaningful updates that make it better. Now, about that £300 price tag. [YouView] Read More >>
The awkward battle over the YouView name is about to hit the courts following the earlier trade mark ruling, with telecoms company Total taking its claim over the YouView name to the High Court. Read More >>
Lord Sugar's budget TV service, YouView, has lost a High Court appeal concerning its trademark. In a screw-up worthy of a hapless contestant on The Apprentice, it's looking increasingly likely that YouView's gonna have to change it's name. Looks like Lord Sugar's gonna be on the other side of the boardroom for once. Read More >>
TalkTalk's taken the wraps off its own YouView-powered service. It's got a different Huawei-made box, looks a little different, and packs LoveFilm's pay-per-view and TalkTalk's own TV packages. The rest is just YouView as we've seen before. The box is free with subscription starting at £14.50 a month, plus a £50 installation charge. [The Register] Read More >>
Looks like BBC and ITV's Freesat has Sky and YouView set squarely in its sights. By adding Netflix, catch-up TV, and other on-demand services, Freesat could have just become the on-stop shop for all things TV in the UK. It's adding more on-demand with an incoming new box, that'll allow you to scroll back in time and play catch-up stuff just like YouView, as well as stream stuff from Netflix and potentially LoveFilm and others too. Read More >>
Featured comment by lancsDavid:
""Looks like BBC and ITV’s Freesat has Sky and YouView set squarely in its sights"
sky has football. as long as it keeps it, its nothing to worry..." More »
BSkyB's streaming service, Now TV, has become the first third party service to jump on the YouView bandwagon, offering instant movies for now, but Sky's awesome sports selection in the future. YouView owners will be able to see the Now TV app on the home page and can register with the service to nab a 30-day free trial. Of course, if you can fork out the £300 for a YouView box, I'm sure a Now TV subscription will be easily affordable. [Broadband TV News] Read More >>
ISP TalkTalk, one of the key backers of the newly launched YouView TV service, has announced its plans to bundle up the potentially useful catch-up terrestrial telly box with its internet bundles, giving the box away for free to some customers. Like it now? Read More >>
Your brand new YouView box is going to be tracking your every move, err, watch. The internet-connected box will tell broadcasters that, yes, you do actually watch I'm a Celebrity and EastEnders, no matter how many times you tell people you don't. Read More >>
Charlie Brooker's first season of Black Mirror received complaints and praise in equal measure for its, err, provocative content. Now, Channel 4 wants more. (Praise, that is, not complaints.) Read More >>
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"Black Mirror was brilliant television - I'm really glad C4 are making more.
The first three were loosely based around Twitter, Britain's Got Talent..." More »
We'll soon be able buy the fabled YouView box after years of delay, but is it really worth it the wait and why would you want another box under your TV? According to Lord Sugar it's not another box -- this is the only box you need. Read More >>
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""You might think that the PVR is pretty redundant when you've got the catch up content around anyway" The commercial channels will have to seriously i..." More »
YouView is finally officially official. After leaks, stops, starts and stutters, YouView boxes will be in the shops by end of this month, right for the start of the Olympics. Read More >>
Featured comment by lancsDavid:
"'anyone can use test'. yeh. u'd think people who made digital equipment would've figured out the importance of this long ago" More »
Well what do we have here then? A Gizmodo UK reader kindly sent us a whole raft of just-out-of-the-cardboard photos of a brand new YouView box complete with some hands-on thoughts. Will this be as "revolutionary" as was promised? Read More >>
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"So basically it doesn't reorganise or represent all the different VOD systems into one easy to use interface it just provides 4 different portals? I ..." More »
YouView might have only just gotten into a few select homes, but it's starting to gather a little bit of steam. Both BT and TalkTalk will apparently sell their own branded YouView boxes, meaning YouView should get a big kick in the pants. Read More >>
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